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According to Wikipedia, bioinformatics is "...an interdisciplinary field that develops and improves upon methods for storing, retrieving, organizing and analyzing biological data..." and main activities include "...to develop software tools to generate useful biological knowledge..". For me, Bioinformatics has been and remains an inspiring motivation to apply what I have learned my first scientific discipline (Applied Mathematics) to something more "real" than all the theoretical and background knowledge I got during my studies. Others might choose finance and industry to do this. For me the choice was to switch fields (with lots of consequences, the very first being an immediate background knowledge gap) and try to work with biologists. This interaction for some years now (MSc, PhD etc.) has given me a lot of extra knowledge and the opportunity to apply what I learned during my first studies to a quickly expanding and challenging field.

For a long time now, I have been reading post in biology and bioinformatics blogs and forums and using very useful things posted there, including pieces of code and a lot of advice. Now it's time that I start doing it too, with a lot of delay! I am pretty sure that I won't really offer anything useful out there, as to this end, there are plenty of smart people for a long time now, maintaining software, blogs and forums. However, it will finally provide a little bit more the feeling of sharing, as Bioinformatics is a discipline where by default, the majority of tools and algorithms are public and open-source.

So keep posted, and I hope that some day you will find something useful in this blog, something that will make you think that this guy has helped me a bit to my work by adding a very small stone to the pileup.

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